RE: Noteworthy News
July 21, 2022 at 9:25 am
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2022 at 9:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 20, 2022 at 7:17 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: AJWs point was, I believe, that in cases such as this one, as well as cases such as the Mike Brown one where we were fed lies about "hands up, don't shoot", which was a complete fabrication, that maybe people should be a little more sure about what they're protesting about and actually know the details before going off.
Oh yeah, sure. I can help you with that. People are protesting the alarming rate of extra-judicial killings of brown people, and the tendency for those involved to avoid any meaningful consequence for their actions. Paid leave has been the standard sentence for a man found to have killed a man otj as a police officer in the united states. In some counties, states, or years, the cops even managed to kill more people than the criminals - which is something that had to be independently researched, because the cops are not obligated to track or keep that data, nor is there anyone or any agency that they must officially report it to.
This seems like it might be a problem. As in...all of it.
Beyond that, though, it seems to me like this is advice you might want to take more to heart yourself - as you invariably show up whenever you've found some new racist bullshit that you feel compelled to share. Maybe, be a little more sure about the details..and what you're protesting? If you're just super duper committed to this, then get better material, from some other set of sources. Additionally, conflating something with a religion is lazy criticism even if it did have similarities to a religion.
I can't imagine why a people who religiously believed that black lives matter would be a bad thing, and it's obvious that the cops haven't heard that good news.
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